Photos by Thomas Good

Staten Island's Conference House

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Set One: "Become an internationalist and respect all life."
Camera: Nikkormat FTN (35mm) with Nikon 50mm f/2 lens
Captions: Abbott Howard "Abbie" Hoffman

"Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life."

"If you don't like the news, why not go out and make your own?"

"The only way to support a revolution is to make your own."

"(Revolution) is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit."

"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it."

"Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire."

"Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law."

"Legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations."

"Without participation, democracy crumbles and fails."

"Never impose your language on people you wish to reach."

"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents...

...not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."

Set Two: "Dream dreams the dreamer."
Camera: Nikon D70s (Digital) with Nikkor 18-70mm f3.5-4.5 G lens
Captions: Tom Verlaine (Television Lyrics)

"I remember how the darkness doubled."

"I recall, lightning struck itself."

"The world is just a feeling you undertook."

"I want a nice little boat made out of ocean."

"The last word is the lost word."

"I sleep light on these shores tonite."

"We laugh and we dance where the river once ran."

"I don't wanna grow up there's too much contradiction."

"Our lips are sealed, our breath is burning..."

"These cold wild seas have left us turning."

"I'm uncertain when beauty meets abuse."

"Torn Curtain giving me the glance."

"Blest now am I to be taken alive - a wonder complete."

"How could I argue with a mirror?"

"Slip out of myself like a shadow and somersault thru walls..."

"I can't tell, it's really so odd Is this spring or fall?"

"I fell right into the Arms of Venus de Milo."

"My senses are sharp and my hands are like gloves."

"Discover dishonor with its thousand commands."

"I love disaster and I love what comes after."

"My preferences, My Dear, Are mostly half price..."

"...A four-leaf clover - Might be nice."

"The elevator called me up...she said you better start making sense."

"She said, 'Dream dreams the dreamer.' I said it's not my fault."

"Tell me who sends these infamous gifts."

"Never the rose without the prick."

"The lamp it whispers and makes amends..."

"...everything was more than I took it for."